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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Humans will never be more intelligent than AI.
There's going to be two types of companies. Those are great at AI and those that went out of business because they weren't.
How do we build a future that is human-centered? I'm Rana El-Khayoubi, and on my podcast, Pioneers of AI, we answer that question and so many more. As an AI scientist, entrepreneur, and investor, I know what it takes to build AI that works for everyone. Every week, I sit down with the pioneers shaping our future, and we take you behind the scenes of the AI that's transforming our lives.
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023.
It's April 4, 2023. The 911 call comes in at 2.34 in the morning from near downtown San Francisco.
Sir, hello? Hello? The caller sounds stunned.
He doesn't say his name. He just keeps repeating, help, help, until he says, Somebody stabbed me. After a minute or so, the caller starts gasping for breath. The 911 operator tries to get more information out of him, without much luck. Slowly, he starts struggling for energy.
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What happened on the night of Bob Lee's stabbing?
The Trump administration is also increasing the pressure on Minnesota. Thousands of immigration agents were sent to the Twin Cities.
Trump administration is deploying an additional 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
In his effort to deploy the National Guard to cities like Portland and Chicago.
In the years since Bob Lee's death, President Trump would deploy federal troops to several cities with Democratic leadership.
I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was.
He would argue that crime was, quote, out of control and that these cities were burning down, that the streets were in crisis. And for anyone living in San Francisco, this kind of language might sound pretty familiar. The San Francisco doom loop was only the first chapter of how Bob Lee's death was spun.
After that, when details of Bob Lee's personal life started being reported out in the press, a new story started to emerge. Bob was held up as an example of the tech industry's excessive party scene, replete with sex, drugs, and house music. What was the real story? Why was Bob Lee killed? And who really was to blame? The city? The industry? Or something else entirely? I'm Shan Wen.
This is Foundering. The Killing of Bob Lee.
Hello, I'm Stephen Carroll. I'm in Brussels, where many of Europe's biggest decisions get made.
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Chapter 3: Who was Bob Lee and why was his death significant?
His death certainly sending shockwaves through the tech community here.
I was on the phone with my father and I started crying. I'm like, Dad, I got to go. Bob's on the news.
Police officers rushed out there. But by the time they got there, the killer or killers were long gone.
The initial wave of news stories are pretty bare bones. They mention Bob's name and the fact that he was killed, but they don't mention a suspect or a weapon. Then the story changes.
At 8.01 p.m., the night of April 4th, only 18 hours after Bob was stabbed, a retired MMA fighter named Jake Shields goes on Twitter and posts, quote, "'I just found out that my good friend was killed last night while walking in San Francisco.'" He was in the good part of town and appears to have been targeted in a random mugging slash attack. Fuck San Francisco. Nowadays, Jake is a podcast host.
He's interviewed Holocaust deniers and white nationalists. But at the time, he was simply a semi-famous guy on Twitter. Soon, more voices join in, many identifying as venture capitalists and tech founders. We've trimmed these tweets for length. RIP at Crazy Bob. This is fucking horrific. Fuck you, SF politicians. Fuck you.
Can we please stand up and completely purge SF politics now and start over? How many more of these are we going to see? Another one reads, This last tweet was referencing Chesa Boudin, a progressive DA who ran on policies like bail reform and reducing the prison population. He was removed from office after a very contentious recall vote.
By the time Bob was killed, members of the tech industry had been rallying for months around the message that crime in San Francisco was out of control. And now, one of their own was dead. That's when the richest man in the world chimes in, taking the story to a whole new level of infamy. At 2.27 a.m., Elon Musk tweets, Is the city taking stronger action to incarcerate repeat offenders?
At Brooke Jenkins, SF. So I woke up, I remember early in the morning to that tweet already being in my inbox. That's Brooke Jenkins, the current DA of San Francisco. She was appointed after Chesa Boudin was recalled. And me having to, you know, out of the fog of waking up, realize what exactly I was looking at in that tweet.
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Chapter 4: How did the tech community react to Bob Lee's murder?
I was shocked that he knew my name at all.
I think about six million people saw it within 24 hours. And so the flood of media interest began almost right away.
All right, here's a horrible story, then we'll talk about Trump.
The next morning, things move beyond the walls of Twitter when conservative YouTubers take up the story.
Tech executive Bob Lee, founder of Cash App, was stabbed to death in San Francisco on the 300 block of Main Street.
This is the late Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.
Now, this caught my attention not only because it was a horrible tragedy, but this is the same block that I was attacked with a knife.
Two months before this, Dilbert was dropped by major newspapers all over the country when Adams made racist statements about Black people. He became a YouTuber, commenting on the news of the day.
So in the 80s, I was robbed twice at gunpoint while I was a bank teller in downtown San Francisco.
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Chapter 5: What misinformation spread during the investigation?
I think they're dead. I think the next time the cities will be alive is when robots rebuild them. That could be a while. All right. Let's talk about Trump's arraignment.
Clearly, what's happening in San Francisco is political.
This is Luke Rutkowski, a prominent 9-11 truther and an Alex Jones acolyte.
The latest high-profile incident that happened in San Francisco happened where a major tech executive and the founder of Cash App, Bob Lee, was viciously attacked in the middle of the night and then lost his life at the age of 43.
News of Lee's death caught the attention of many commentators, from those on the fringe to those who are increasingly mainstream.
I'm Dave Rubin. This is The Rubin Report. It's April 6, 2023. We're live streaming on Rumble, YouTube, and Locals.
Dave Rubin is a conservative YouTuber. His channel has almost 3 million subscribers.
And it's not just that they're pushing all of the gender stuff and the race stuff and that they lied about COVID and everything else. It's that there is also an unbelievable amount of crime happening in blue cities right now. You know it, we cover it all the time. But the worst of the worst, as you guys know, is San Francisco. San Francisco has completely collapsed.
Elon Musk's comments are completely right. The amount of security he has to have at the Twitter offices, which is in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
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Chapter 6: What were the implications of Bob Lee's death for San Francisco?
It's more casual, more in your face. In your daily life, on your way to work, on your way to dinner, on the walk to pick up groceries, you might see someone shooting up at the BART station or sitting on the sidewalk with open sores on their legs or having a mental health episode in the middle of traffic. And most longtime San Franciscans would tell you, unfortunately, that's not new.
There's research that shows that worrying about crime can become a chronic emotional state that shapes how people see the world around them. It can sow anxiety and mistrust, even when crime rates are stable or falling. The research also shows that people who worry more about crime also tend to see common nuisances as threatening.
Things like noisy neighbors, litter, graffiti, or just visible groups of teenagers hanging out. To them, these are signs of social decline. Crime during and immediately after COVID was a nationwide conversation. But San Francisco especially was a hot topic.
Comedian Dave Chappelle was not the usual jokes and giggles during a surprise show last week. Instead, going off about San Francisco's high crime and rampant homelessness.
Bob Lee was killed during a moment when San Francisco had become a national punching bag, based on a reputation that wasn't completely inaccurate.
The comedian asking the audience, quote, what the blank happened to this place? He didn't say blank. Saying the whole city was now the tenderloin as a district notorious for crime, homelessness, drug problems.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flew in just to dump on the city for a campaign spot.
We're here in the once great city of San Francisco. We came in here and we saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine.
And you look around, the city is not vibrant anymore. It's really collapsed because of leftist policies.
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